It seems that the optimizer keeps array assignments live when passing
the array as a pointer, but not when passing the address of an element.
Found when testing the following code:
BasisBlade *pga_blades[16] = {
blades[1], blades[2], blades[3], blades[4],
blades[7], blades[6], blades[5], blades[0],
blades[8], blades[9], blades[10], blades[15],
blades[14], blades[13], blades[12], blades[11],
};
BasisGroup *pga_groups[4] = {
[BasisGroup new:4 basis:&pga_blades[ 0]],
[BasisGroup new:4 basis:&pga_blades[ 4]],
[BasisGroup new:4 basis:&pga_blades[ 8]],
[BasisGroup new:4 basis:&pga_blades[12]],
};
Only the first element of pga_blades is being assigned in the optimized
code, but everything is correct when not optimizing.
It turns out I broke the type system when it comes to pointers to
functions and arrays. This test checks basic function and array pointers
and passes with qfcc from before the type system rework.
typeredef1 parses properly but fails due to it erroneously complaining
that foo is redeclared as a different kind of object (it's the same
kind).
typeredef2 is the real problem in that it's a syntax error when it
should not be. This has proven to be a show-stopper for development on
my laptop as it has very recent vulkan headers which have such a
duplicate typedef.
Raw 'x y z' style vector constants that look like ints (no fractional
parts) used to initialize vector globals/constants don't get converted
to float vectors, resulting in nans for negative values and denormals
for positive values. This tends to make game physics... interesting.
The common idiom for self init (below) causes a double-call when
compiling with --advanced, resulting in an incorrect retain count.
if (!(self = [super init])) {
return nil;
}
That is, updating a variable using a function that takes the same
variable, probably very common in iterators, thus the name. It happens
to be the first qfcc test specific to Ruamoko. It's really just the
typedef, zerolinker, and vkgen type encoding loop stripped down for ease
of debugging.
Of course, it fails :)
While it specifically checks vectors, I'm pretty sure it applies to
structs, too. Also, it's a little redundant with vecaddr.r, but is much
more specific and far less evil in what it does (no horrible pointer
shenanigans): just something that is fairly common practice.
This code now reaches into one level of the expression tree and
rearranges the nodes to allow the constant folder to do its things, but
only for ints, and only when the folding is trivially correct (* and *,
+/- and +/-). There may be more opportunities, but these cover what I
needed for now and anything more will need code generation or smarter
tree manipulation as things are getting out of hand.
Storing a variable into a dereference pointer (*p = x) is not marking
the variable as used (due to a mistake while converting to Ruamoko
statement format) resulting in assignments to that variable being
dropped due to it being a dead assignment as the assignment to the
variable and the storing need to be in separate basic blocks (thus the
call in the test, though an if would have worked, I think) for the bug
to trigger.
The means that the actual call expression is not in the statement lint
of the enclosing block expression, but just its result, whether the call
is void or not. This actually simplifies several things, but most
importantly will make Ruamoko calls easier to implement.
The test is because I had some trouble with double-calls, and is how I
found the return-postop issue :P
Commit 76b3bedb72 broke more than just the
swap test, but at least I know I need to get an edge in the dag.
Currently, the following code is generated: return and add are reversed.
../tools/qfcc/test/return-postop.r:8: return counter++;
0001 store.i counter, .tmp0
0002 return .tmp0
0003 add.i .tmp0, (1), counter
However, I don't want to deal with it right now, so it's marked XFAIL.
Forgetting to invoke [super dealloc] in a derived class's -dealloc
method has caused me to waste far too much time chasing down the
resulting memory leaks and crashes. This is actually the main focus of
issue #24, but I want to take care of multiple paths before I consider
the issue to be done.
However, as a bonus, four cases were found :)
I have gotten tired of chasing memory leaks caused by me forgetting to
add [super dealloc] to my dealloc methods, so getting qfcc to chew me
out when I do seems to be a good idea (having such a warning would have
saved me many hours, just as missing return warnings have).
When moving an identifier label from one node to another, the first node
must be evaluated before the second node, which the edge guarantees.
However, code for swapping two variables
t = a; a = b; b = t;
creates a dependency cycle. The solution is to create a new leaf node
for the source operand of the assignment. This fixes the swap.r test
without pessimizing postop code.
This takes care of the core problem in #3, but there is still room for
improvement in that the load/store can be combined into a move.
There's still some cleanup to do, but everything seems to be working
nicely: `make -j` works, `make distcheck` passes. There is probably
plenty of bitrot in the package directories (RPM, debian), though.
The vc project files have been removed since those versions are way out
of date and quakeforge is pretty much dependent on gcc now anyway.
Most of the old Makefile.am files are now Makemodule.am. This should
allow for new Makefile.am files that allow local building (to be added
on an as-needed bases). The current remaining Makefile.am files are for
standalone sub-projects.a
The installable bins are currently built in the top-level build
directory. This may change if the clutter gets to be too much.
While this does make a noticeable difference in build times, the main
reason for the switch was to take care of the growing dependency issues:
now it's possible to build tools for code generation (eg, using qfcc and
ruamoko programs for code-gen).
